G.K. Practice Test: Question Set - 07
1. What invention was first installed at a Hartford, Connecticut bank in 1889?
- (A) Automatic
teller machine
- (B) Time-lock
safe
- (C) Burglar
alarm
- (D) Pay
telephone
2. This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing’.
- (A) Philo
Farnsworth
- (B) J. Presper
Eckert
- (C) John
Mauchly
- (D) Charles
Babbage
3. Who developed the idea of Crop Rotation?
- (A) Potato
Peterson
- (B) Turnip
Townsend
- (C) Cabbage
Carlson
- (D) Swede
Svenson
4. For whom high heeled shoes were invented?
- (A) Cleopatra
- (B) Queen
Elizabeth I
- (C) King Louis
the XIV
- (D) King Charles
II
5. Who synthesized the first wholly artificial gene?
- (A) Hargobind
Khorana
- (B) J.J.
Thompson
- (C) Benjamin
Franklin
- (D) Meghnad Saha
6. What George Pullman invented?
- (A) Sleeping
(railway) car
- (B) Airship
- (C) Box car
(railway)
- (D) Air brakes
7. What beverage was invented by Charles Alderton in 1885 in Waco, Texas?
- (A) Cream soda
- (B) Coca-Cola
- (C) Dr. Pepper
- (D) Sprite
8. For what is Charles Babbage (1792-1871) remembered?
- (A) Computers
- (B) Telescopes
- (C) Radio-Telegraphy
- (D) Steam
Boating
9. When was Milk Tray first introduced?
- (A) 1915
- (B) 1934
- (C) 1923
- (D) 1942
10. Who invented fuel cells in 1839?
- (A) Buckminster
Fuller
- (B) Sir William
Grove
- (C) Sylvester
Graham
- (D) Joyce Hall
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